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Answering Questions with the Pendulum - A Method of Divination Get a blank page of copy paper and draw a line down the middle or diagonally across. Ask your pendulum to show you which side means "Yes"; and after that, ask your pendulum to show you which side means "No." Write these words on their proper sides of the page, in accordance with the pendulum's movements.  For the next few days, periodically ask the pendulum to show you Yes and No on this piece of paper. Once you are feeling comfortable with this procedure, think of a question you want to ask and go to sleep. Sleep until you feel refreshed - do not attempt this exercise while you are tired, otherwise your results may be inaccurate.  Upon waking up, as soon as you can, sit down with your piece of paper and pendulum. Say, "Universal Mind, whenever I ask a question and the answer is Yes, you will cause this pendulum to move in the direction of Yes." Then command it to move in the required direc...

The Metaphysical Origins of Amber: Healing Stone of Divine Tears Helios was the ancient Greek god of the Sun, who drove the solar chariot across the sky. When his son, Phaëthon, attempted to drive the chariot without his father's permission, he lost control of the horses and drove the sun towards the Earth. Zeus had to strike down the chariot with a lightning bolt in order to save the Earth from burning up. The Milky Way was thus formed by the scorched path of the Sun across the sky. Phaëthon fell to his death, and his sisters, the seven Heliades, grieved and mourned for four months. The gods turned the sisters into poplar trees, and their tears into amber, which often washes up on the Baltic shores. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, in his Argonautica, the Celts said that the amber drops are the tears of Apollo himself, after his banishment by Zeus to the land of the Hyperboreans. Among the Norse and Vikings, amber was believed to be the tears of Freyja, the goddess of love and b...